But really, they are the church. They’re just the lost members of the church; those needing to be found. Love often determines our priorities. Actually, love always determines our priorities. The reason we sleep in instead of going to the gym to work out is because we love sleep or laziness more than we love getting in shape or being…
“And I will give you a new heart and I will put a new spirit within you.” Ezekiel 36:26 My name is Catie Warrick, and I was saved by Grace on February 24th, 2013. This is my story. I was the girl that you’d see on 6th street wearing my own version of a Pretty Woman outfit. My heels all…
“They help us to understand how God takes average people with characteristics similar to our own and reshapes them to become amazing instruments of God.” Last night at The Well, Holland, our young adults pastor examined the lives of several people from different walks of life that experienced the power of Christ. These people are described by Luke in chapter…
As a young adult pastor in a city ranked as one of the top ten “Best Cities for Hippies”, I get the pleasure of discussing what Jesus thinks about marijuana pretty often. The majority of people who smoke weed are guys in their twenties, so these are the people that I pastor. The reality though, is that this is an…
“God’s love does not waver depending on our behavior or actions- He constantly loves us..” Have you ever felt unwanted? Unloved? So covered in sin that you thought ‘nobody loves me, God doesn’t even want me.’ The honest truth is- we’ve all been there, we’ve all felt that. We have all felt filthy, dirty and knee deep in our lies and…
“The truth is, our world breeds a culture of idolatry. We are steeped in it, and most of us fall prey to it without even realizing it.” Idolatry is something most of us probably don’t think about on a daily basis. It’s something that’s easy to view as irrelevant in our era, a remnant of days long past, when worshipping…
Every Tuesday night, about 75 young adults in their 20’s and 30’s gather together in one little building. This is a recipe for major disaster. Young adults, like everyone else, are sinners. Not only are we sinners, but our generation specifically is known for being overzealous, indecisive, impatient, frustrated, and short-sighted. So when you gather a big group of us…
“Why? Why is this happening?” I feel like this is a question that has been asked by every single person that has ever been a person. On Tuesday night we asked it again as we heard stories of Christian persecution in Jerusalem in Jesus’ day and in Iraq today. Persecution feels so far from us, worlds away. But we are…
Last night at The Well, we studied Acts chapter 10. As Holland was speaking, it came to my attention how I perceived certain people, situations and things in my life as “unclean.” Just like Peter viewed the Gentiles in Acts 10, I have viewed my friends, family and even enemies at times: that they are unworthy or because they lead a different…
